1/29/13 Update: I spoke with Prairie View Dairy Farm; Cheryl said they are just an office in the barn & distribute daily products. The main house is owned by Michael Brandt McCammack. The McCammacks ran the Phillips 66 station shown in this Blog so they are only maybe 1/2-mile from the old cafe. She said his dad is Tom McCammack. Vickie Parker & husband Rick said they will get the info on grandma Parker's old farm's address for me when they return from winter vacation.1/26/13 UPDATE: I left a message at Prairie Dairy Farm across the road to get the address of our old farm & current owner's phone so I can learn when old barn torn down, etc. They don't open until Monday.II've been searching all over county roads with only numbers for several days, but finally asked my cousin to help me. This is where the old farm is per MJ:

"I found the the farm on South County Road 1000E. It is south of Old National Road 40. Rd. 75 crosses Rd. 40 north of the farm. At that corner, going south from the old station/restaurant on the corner are two houses across the road from one another. The first one is on the east side of the road (Prairie Farms Dairy), then next is the one on the west side of the road which is where our grandparents lived. The place across the road is where we used to rent and live in the Wilson (at that time) house. I am sure they didn't have postings of the road numbers and directions then.

It has been ages since I have been down that road and more buildings have been built, but I can see the old landscape and going on south, find the same roads leading to where we lived on the farm on the hill. It is on East County Road 450 South, after going across the creek. A creek runs on each side of the property. "

My landmark had been the old Phillips 66 station on US 40 going to Greencastle where Grandma Parker caught the Greyhound to Decatur. I recently found & scanned that pho which I took in 1970 on a family history hunt. It is all gone now of course but MJ says the McCammack family owned it. A larger overview of the Parker farm in context is below the Phillips 66 pho and would help for anyone trying to find it again using MJ's directions as well as their own farm (Tressman & Fern Parker, parents). A street view is not available on Goole Earth but I found a Birdseye view on Homes.com. The dairy's address is 2785 S. County Rd 1000 E, Coatesville IN 46121 (phone 317-539-5326). On Trulia, it is listed as being built in 1922. The Parker farm is marked with the red pointer A. Google lists it in Putnam, IN but Trulia lists it in Coatesville. Link: http://maps.google.com/maps?rlz=1T4ADFA_enUS382US384&q=south+county+road+1000e,+putnam+county+in&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&ei=mgADUfjHCou88wSyuYCICg&ved=0CAsQ_AUoAA

Old Phillips 66 gas station on US 40--landmark to turn into road to grandma's house

Red A pointer marked the farm, south of US 40

Birds eye view on Homes.com shows Prairie Farms Dairy across the street at 2785 S. County Rd 1000 E; grandpa's barn is gone & there's a swimming pool now; meat house & chicken coop are gone too. The pasture with the big oak to the left is now farmed & all that's gone too.

Update from cousin June Miller in New Hampshire--we'll have to correct the family tree (again). Very excited to learn all this & big thanks for all her efforts. I am also adding one pho of Julia & Jabez I didn't find until after the Butler Mixbook was done.

"Linda - a correction - There were EIGHT children in the family of Jabez H Butler Sr., and Julia P Moyes: Harold [1888-1964], Ralph Adams Butler [Feb 1890-Oct 1890], Walter [1892-1945], Fred [1894-1978], Emma Florence "Flossie" [1895-1900], Victoria "Queen" [1897-1988], Jabez H, Jr. "Harry" [1899-1984], and Cyril [1904-1983] my father. Harold and Ralph were born in Chamberlains, NF; Walter, Fred, Emma, Victoria, and Jabez, Jr., were born in Cambridge, MA; Cyril was born in Chamberlains, NF. ["Flossie" was born in Somerville - not Cambridge, but she died in Cambridge and is buried in Topsail, NF] So much info. I use Ancestry.com but have not added any of my "tree" there. I have done U.S.censuses from 1850-1940 on almost all aunts/uncles/grandparents, etc. Been at it a LONG time! I also use the "Chebucto" website that you noted in NF, and the Newfoundland and Labrador website. "June

The complete story of the Butler family involvement in discovering, purchasing and selling shares in Bell Island Mine is told in this new book released 8-1-2012. My grandfather Harold Gear Butler used to tell this story over & over about how the Butlers almost became millionaires. Available on Amazon--I ordered w/map of NL so I can follow the historical footsteps here:http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?index=books&linkCode=qs&keywords=0920911692A fascinating 5-pp excerpt of the Butlers' story is also here as a preview:http://tinyurl.com/b5e7aee

1/27/13 Update from June Miller on Butlers brothers below:"Correction - 3. Story of Jabez Butler and the discovery of Bell Island Mine: [in your blog] Should be: Brothers Jabez (not James), John and Esau Butler [pictured]...Jabez was Dad's grandfather; John was Mama's grandfather: making them mygrgrgrandfathers. John married Margaret McDonald; Esau married her sister Catherine McDonald."

Newfoundland history offers a wealth of resources for the serious family historian, from extensive on-line data bases to scholarly publications. I will be posting details on my research page. Summary to date (and will add several more):

1. NL Grand Banks Genealogy site: http://ngb.chebucto.org/ Thousands of listings of marriages and more from early 19th C, phos, forums, aid, more. I found this entry:"Jan 23 1887 Jabez Henry Butler, bach, sailor, Chamberlains & Julia Phebe Moyes, spin, Topsail. At Topsail, METH. W: G A Simms, Sarah A Butler"So there's a typo in our tree as it shows June not Jan. for marriage. From: http://ngb.chebucto.org/Vstats/meth-mar-hm.shtml There are numerous researchers working on Butler genealogy; their queries & emails are posted here (scroll down to Butler): http://ngb.chebucto.org/NGBRIF/nlgrif-b.shtml2. The Family History Society of Newfoundland and Labrador--scholarly group. Free issue of The Newfoundland Ancestor available here if you register. Found 2 Butlers who were listed with debts in one article! They have Parish records, headstone info, lectures, and much more. see: http://www.fhsnl.ca/

Brothers James, John and Esau Butler

3. Story of Jabez Butler and the discovery of the Bell Island Mine (pho of his sons, left):http://www.heritage.nf.ca/environment/mine/ch5p2.html4. Bell Island & Butler story here also with color phos:http://www.bellisland.net/no2mine/press/press.htm I also found a Fred Butler on Butlerville Road: FRED BUTLER, phone (709) 488-24869 Butlerville Rd Bell Island, NL5. The Butler SocietyThis group was founded when the Earl of Ormonde turned over the family castle at Kilkenny to Ireland in 1967. They hold rallies at the castle, host a forum, and publish numerous articles on family history. They also sponsor a scholarly publication, TheJournal of the Butler Society, cited internationally by numerous libraries.See: http://www.butler-soc.org/From their page on About the Butler Society: "late Arthur Butler, 6th Marquess of Ormonde and 30th Chief Butler of Ireland, was planning to give Kilkenny Castle, his ancestral home since 1391, to the people of Kilkenny in 1967. The two occasions were combined. Butlers from many countries gathered at Kilkenny to witness the handing over of the Castle and The Butler Society was founded in August 1967. The society has grown ever since." The reference is to a rally where they planned to launch it in 1966 but moved it when they learned of the transfer.They offer much guidance on researching Butler family lines. Sometimes a motto can be a clue. Ours is "Comme Je Trouve"--I take things as I find them. My grandfather gave this to me. This turns out to be the motto of the main Ormonde line dating to 1190 where I have found ancestors on the Mormon genealogy site.

I have added a page on family Obituaries and Death Records I have found. I finally found Rhonda Michener's--daughter of Beryl Parker & Bill Michener of Indianpolis, IN. I will also add the old ones I found in the Putnam County, IN library listings. See: /obituaries.html

I found the obit of Samuel Arthur Peet, one of 12 children; my grandma Lilian Gertrude Butler had been a Peet. The obit offers special thanks to the Butler family, so I assume this is the correct family line. I have posted this one on the Obit page also. I have also found the obit of Marjorie Eleanor Peet--there MUST be a connection as my mom was named Margery and her sister was named Eleanor. I think Lilian & Marjorie must have been sisters.

Margery Butler Parker, 90th Birthday, Houston, TX. She is holding Volume 1 of 9 Memory Books given to her by her 4 daughters. Friends from all over the US wrote letters of remembrance for them and sent phos we'd never seen before in some cases.

Mom died April 28, 2007, on my daughter's 40th birthday. Her Family Tree is shown in thumbnail here; full size is at my family tree page: /ancestry-charts--family-trees.html I will be adding more info to it.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has much data on-line; I found my great-grandfather Jabez Henry Butler Sr.'s passagenger record from 1890 in their Passenger Manifest Lists (1848 - 1891) as well as his son, Harold Butler, age 3. Jabez is listed as age 26, exactly correct, as he was born 10-27-1864 in Port de Grave. His occupation is listed as "fisherman." The info is at: http://www.sec.state.ma.us/ArchivesSearch/PassengerDetail.aspx?ID=10530846 I also found several Julia Butlers listed; some were listed as "servants" and another's occupation was listed as "spinster." Jabez married Julia Moyes in 6-23-1887 in Topsail so the 1890 sailings might have been her. The early Butlers emigrating from ireland were probably part of the Irish potato famine so vividly described by Pulitzer historian Arthur Handlin in "The Uprooted." According to my ex-mother-in-law, he is related to the Silverman side. She's listed at: http://www.sec.state.ma.us/ArchivesSearch/Passengermanifest.aspx

This Julia Butler is listed as a servant, directly from Ireland, and was not on the same boat as Jabez Butler.

My grandfather had shown me the old Butler homestead in Topsail years ago, etched in a tattered, yelllowed photo. My cousin June Miller in NH gave me the address recently and I was able to find it updated on Google Earth (Credit: 12 Uplands Rd., Conception Bay South, Newfoundland pho). The story & phos are here: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.4844754089127.2171971.1605123792&

by Linda Parker Woodward

Oldest daughter of 4 born to Dr. Sterling Glen & Margery Butler Parker in Oak Park, IL. Worked as corporate/technical writer for 45 years in Ann Arbor & Houston before retiring to Atlanta area. Daughter is Dr. Stacey Cathleen Heit, married to Dr. Larry Heit; they have 4 children, my GC. Various homes as troop train baby while dad was in Adak in WWII but settled in Decatur, IL in 1948-1960. M.A. in English, The U of Michigan; B.S. in Educ., Northwestern U-Evanston.